I finally bought myself a Windows XP Media Center Edition computer. Wow! Awsome! Sure, it’s a Microsoft product and yes there are bugs and “features” you will not like. But it is really nice. Recording works great, I can sleep instead of stay up late and watch CSI:NY uncut. The system is similar to the […]

Google is kinda slow in updating their “Personalized Modules” directory (sorry guys) so it was just a matter of time until some users create their own. Here it is: Google Modules. The page is quite good, based on the well-known tagging technique. My modules are listed too. Ouh, almost forgot: Is Google evil? Have you […]

While installing my usual Firefox extension I came across Greasemonkey. This extension lets you change a website with JavaScript code. So I had the idea to make an own script. Here we go: kinochur-imdb – It’s used to display a link to the IMDb.com website for each movie that plays in the local cinema. You […]

I finally installed IpCop 1.4.x on my firewall. The installation was easy as ever and the web-gui looks quite good to me (even with dhtml menues ;)). A nice feature of the new 1.4.x branch is the built-in packet shaping (or QoS – Quality of Service). You can set for each port and protocol (TCP/UDP) […]

Google adds API for their personalized homepage three days ago. I had no time to write a new entry here, but I made some modules for the site. You can find my list of modules at Google: Personalized Homepage modules. Let me know what you think about and post some comments. You can read more […]

You think you have a big ego? You can check it now online at http://ego.rubycandy.com/ My ego for “Corsin Camichel” and “cocaman.ch” gives me 6635 EgoPoints. And a search for “cocaman” and “cocaman.ch” 6788 egoPoints. Very good 🙂